Babylon 5 & Claudia Christian rule.
Of all the characters in the show my favourites were Garibaldi & Ivanova (not necessarily in that order).
I like the fact that B5 has flawed characters, really bad things happen and things aren't put right at the end of the episode (unlike any next gen Star Trek show.)
It was the first TV show to use CGI for visual fx & virtual sets & the aliens didn't all look like humans with wrinkly foreheads (a la next gen trek).
Despite the fact that Joe Straczynski is an atheist, a lot of respect was shown for various religions (unlike trek because Rodenberry hated most organised religions).
The acting was for the most part very good & the writing was brilliant (apart from a few naff episodes, which Joe has offered to apologise for personally at conventions).
I would love to see more in the B5 universe, but until I can mug Bill Gates for a couple of Billion Dollars, I can't see it happening (TV execs just don't seem to like quality Science Fiction (too cerebral for them I think).
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